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“(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that they weren’t.” KC’s growing Vodou community emerges from ...
Area of West African Vodun practice, the religion with the greatest influence on Haitian Vodou In 1492, Christopher Columbus ' expedition established a Spanish colony on Hispaniola . [ 469 ] A growing European presence decimated the island's indigenous population, which was probably Taíno , both through introduced diseases and exploitation as ...
Coupled with the religion of the Kongo people from Central Africa, the Vodún religion of the Fon became one of the two main influences on Haitian Vodou. [131] Like the name Vodou itself, many of the terms used in this creolised Haitian religion derive from the Fon language; [132] including the names of many deities, which in Haiti are called ...
West African Vodún, a religion practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups; African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum, one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé Tambor de Mina, a syncretic religion that developed in northern Brazil
Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion, which blends traditional Vodun from the Kingdom of Dahomey with Roman Catholicism. In similarity to their West African heritage, oungans are leaders within the community who run temples ( ounfò ) to respect and serve lwa (also written as loa ) alongside the Grand Maître (grandmaster or creator ...
Afterward, members are scheduled to vote to close the church, a century and a half after it was created by hardscrabble farmers in this southern Illinois community of about 14,000 people.
[5] [6] Scholars define Hoodoo as a folk religion. Some practice Hoodoo as an autonomous religion, some practice as a syncretic religion between two or more cultural religions, in this case being African indigenous spirituality and Abrahamic religion. [7] [8] Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of the Bakongo people of Central Africa. [9]
Some forms of folk Catholic practices are based on syncretism with non-Christian or otherwise non-Catholic beliefs or religions. Some of these folk Catholic forms have come to be identified as separate religions, as is the case with Caribbean and Brazilian syncretism between Catholicism and West African religions, which include Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé.